Secretary Mullin & Secretary Duffy provide an update on the FAA National Ground Stop.

So what happened? I've heard a lot of the rumors like Mark Wayne has, but what we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system. I think every single one of your networks have covered the president and myself talking about this for the last two years. The president for the last year has been asking Congress to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system. So we have TDM telecom. So this is analog telecom. Our switches, our routers, actually got overloaded with data and they went down. And I shouldn't say they went down. They started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down. Now, I have already replaced some of those switches with President Trump. And our new IP switches did not go down. It's the old hardware that went down. And I think the question for the American people is, do you want your Congress to fund this? President Trump has asked for the money. He's asked the Congress on a bipartisan approach to say give us the resources to build a state-of-the-art air traffic control system. Let's not do a patchwork, a fix to a system that's critical for every single family. It's not red, it's not blue, it's not Democrat, it's not Republican, it's American. Give us the money to fix it. Now if you look to the past administrations, going back 25 years, $15 billion. ...has been given to the FAA to fix this air traffic control system. And guess what? Barely anything was done. We had a down payment. President Trump asked for it in the one big beautiful bill of $12.5 billion. We are building in that $12.5 billion. That portion of the build will be done by the time President Trump leaves office. We are moving at a speed that has never been seen before with regard to the FAA. But that's a partial funding. I think America demands that the Congress give the rest of the resources to finish the bill. Bill. And I think the Congress, at a point, looked to the history of the FAA and said, we don't trust you. Well, with President Trump and what we've done, I think they do trust, because what we've done with that first tranche of money. And so with a brand new state-of-the-art system, you won't have these outages. So what you experienced today, but you can think back, many of you covered the story from a year and a half ago, we had outages in Newark, multiple outages in Newark. This is a continual problem that we have, and it should be fixed. And so what we want to do, I've asked, the president's asked for $30 billion. I want $50 billion. And by the way, if you look at how much money congressmen... Peter, you've covered Congress. They waste a lot of money. What's more important than having an air traffic control system that actually works? And so the president said, you know what, let's finish this job. New hardware, new software, new telecommunication. Many of our towers are almost 100 years old. Our air traffic controllers have leaky roofs, air conditioning that doesn't work. They're high in the air. Their elevators don't work. Their roofs leak. I want new towers. We should also invest in many of the airports around the country that, frankly, many of them are embarrassing. Let's get the money. Let's invest so we never have to come at 8.30 at night and have a press conference on why air travel was shut down, why we have tens of thousands of people in airports separated from their families without any knowledge of where they're going to sleep tonight. Now, you probably picked up that we've identified the problem. We've got our centers and our TRACONs operational right now. And so at 8.15 tonight, Eastern Time, we've opened up the airspace. Now does that mean every flight is going to fly right now? It's going to be slow, right? So if if you're watching, you're at an airport, check with your airline. It depends on do we have crews available? Do we have pilots and flight attendants available to fly your flight? We're going to try to move as many of those as we can tonight if we have the capacity with crews to to move those flights. If not, we're going to start tomorrow morning with our airline partners moving those aircraft